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Considering the film's strong elements of gun battles and explosions, as well as the schedules of the main cast members and most of the guest actors, the main shooting location of "Cats and Dogs" was chosen in Xiangcheng.

In mid-spring in April, the climate in Xiangcheng is exceptionally pleasant.In view of the fact that it was his first time to be in charge of the director's microphone, Lu Heng, who had been preparing for a long time, was still nervous when things came to an end. He simply invited the main actors to rehearse the script a week before the start of the film.One is to let all the actors get familiar with the plot before the filming starts, and the other is to promote everyone’s tacit understanding during the filming through rehearsals—even though everyone is already an old friend who has dealt with many times before joining the group .

For most of the actors in Xiangcheng who are used to "fast food shooting", the most exaggerated moment is that they can't wait to finish a movie in a month or even half a month.If it is true that it can be polished, it is not uncommon for a play to be polished in two or three years.

Before joining the group, the main actors and actresses of "Cats and Dogs" all thought that if Lu Heng was not the former, he definitely would not be the latter—after all, they were only taking on a commercial film, and the filming contract also clearly marked The longest shooting time for everyone is no more than three months.So according to the agreed unspoken rules, these "old fritters" on the set didn't take this movie "seriously"——

In other words, everyone treated "Cats and Dogs" with the attitude of shooting a commercial film.It wasn't until Lu Heng gave the "outrageous" shooting process that everyone suddenly reacted——

This guy actually wants to shoot a commercial film in the same way as a literary film!

Every time before shooting, half a day is reserved for rehearsal and scheduling, to ensure that every frame, every ray of light, every shot, and even the emotion of every line is completely in line with the most perfect scene in my fantasy.

Although Lu Heng's character is gentle and easy-going, he is not like many well-known directors who would turn into a "set tyrant" as soon as he sits in front of the monitor. He would even swear so badly that the actors couldn't get off the stage, but The actors who have worked with him have completely fallen into the fear of being dominated by Lu Heng's smile during the day-to-day filming process——

In the face of all kinds of NG, Lu Heng will not get angry at all. He will just sit patiently next to the actors and communicate with each other again and again. It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand. Let's talk about the tricks together, even according to the different understandings of the actors and directors, each shoot once, and then slowly taste whose performance is better and fits the movie better, even if you can't express the emotions of the characters for a while, it doesn't matter. Let's call the card again and again until the performance of the actors can fully meet the director's expectations, and this part will be over.

Lu Heng's directing method gave everyone the feeling that when everyone went to Yanjing to receive the notice, Lu Heng invited them to eat firewood stew. The big fire iron pot was slowly stewed until the stewed chicken bones were crispy and the meat was rotten. Potatoes and other side dishes are all stewed into the soup. Although all kinds of ingredients can maintain their own flavors, after a long simmering with firewood, it is best to let all kinds of ingredients be simmered together until they are stewed in one pot. perfect.

Of course, this kind of slow-cooked shooting method mainly relies on the abundant shooting budget of "Cats and Dogs".After all, this is Lu Heng's first film. As the producer and investor, Hengxuan Studio naturally has to ensure that Lu Heng's director will not be constrained by the tight shooting budget. The most important thing is Wei Linxuan. A genius in marketing planning, in order to attract enough funds, he has already signed all the actors' clothing, shoes, bags, even jewelry and watches to several famous international luxury brands.Make sure that during the film screening, there will be an indispensable shot of the classic models or new props of these international luxury brands.So much so that the movie "Cats and Dogs" has recovered at least two-thirds of the shooting cost before it was released.

Under such circumstances, Lu Heng is of course not afraid to take pictures carefully to ensure that every frame is what he wants.

At this time, Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan did not expect that their habitual sharing of shooting costs would actually bring two "dress-up scenes" to the film that are regarded as classics by both the film industry and the fashion industry. So much so that after the film was released, it led countless commercial films to imitate, and even inspired many commercial film crews, directly starting the classic process of finding sponsors before filming and advertising during filming.

But these are things for later, the most urgent thing is that Lu Heng still needs to fully immerse himself in the filming of the movie.

The next scene to be filmed is the highlight of "Cats and Dogs".In the adapted script of "Cats and Dogs", the identities of the two protagonists, A Dao and A Kai, are still trainee policemen and fledgling international thieves.As a trainee policeman, A Dao used his vacation time to visit his girlfriend who was studying fashion design in Country F, only to learn that his girlfriend had been missing for two days unexpectedly.

In order to ascertain the whereabouts of his girlfriend, A Dao decided to investigate by himself after calling the police.In the process of tracing, A Dao accidentally met A Kai.Akai, who claims to be a freelance photographer, is also looking for his junior sister.After many investigations, Akai found that both his junior sister and A Dao's girlfriend had attended a fashionable dinner party called "The Lost Place".What's even more coincidental is that both girls disappeared that night after attending the dinner party.

The common goal made A Dao and A Kai temporarily form an alliance to track down the fashionable dinner party of "The Lost Land".And after going through all kinds of dangerous investigations, A Dao and A Kai also formed a deep partnership.At the same time, A Dao was also shocked to discover that this fashionable dinner was actually related to a well-hidden international smuggler group.The disappearance of A Dao's girlfriend is also related to the human-snake group.At the same time, his partner A Kai paid too much attention to the content of the conversation between A Dao's girlfriend and A Dao before his disappearance, and even the exchange of emails aroused A Dao's doubts.And this kind of doubt broke out instantly when Akai peeked at A Dao's laptop without permission and was caught by A Dao on the spot.

"...So what we are going to shoot today is the scene where A Dao breaks up after learning of A Kai's real identity." Zhao Ermiao sat cross-legged on the rest chair on the set, applauding the scene in a difficult and precarious posture. with the script.

In the setting of the new script, Akai, played by Zhao Miao, is an international thief. Because his younger junior sister was kidnapped by a human-snake group, he had to accept the threat of the human-snake group, and deliberately approached the policeman A Dao played by Lu Heng. In order to gain A Dao's trust, he finds out the evidence that A Dao's girlfriend inadvertently photographed the killings of the human-snake group and returns it to the human-snake group in exchange for the life of the junior sister.

"...It is Akai's task to cheat Adao's trust and find evidence to rescue the junior sister. However, in the process of carrying out the task, Akai was impressed by Adao's character and did not want to see Adao solve the case with full of hope. In the end, he could only end up with his girlfriend being killed. Of course, Akai also hated the actions of the human-snake group. So here he should deliberately expose his flaws for A Dao to find out, so as to interrupt his "undercover" mission. But at the same time, Akai didn't want himself and A Dao to turn against each other, so he felt very complicated at this time. He was relieved that A Dao had discovered his "true face", but also saddened by the fact that the two had turned against each other after the truth was revealed. .So while filming this scene, I would have the lights..."

Lu Heng sat in the director's chair and narrated the play to Zhao Miao.This is a highlight of "Cats and Dogs", and it is also the turning point of this movie.So Lu Heng was very concerned.He started from various aspects such as positioning, lines, emotions, shots, and even lighting, and explained the feeling he wanted. Before the shooting, he went through the scene with Zhao Miao more than ten times to ensure that every detail was perfect enough.

However, the actual filming started in the first scene after the lunch break, to ensure that he and Zhao Miao could still retain full emotions after many rehearsals, interpreting this scene——

""Cats and Dogs" No.40 seven games——"

"Action!"